1983-87: SDP leader with "tough but tender" policies - tough on economics, tender on social policy - but warred with partners in SDP/Liberal Alliance over Nato, nukes and much else.
Certainly, it would be interesting if Melania was rebelling – against her husband, against his "tender age" policy of separating migrant children from their parents, against his whole regime.
In the Balkans, the Chamberlain for our time, Lord Owen, after blaming the U.S. for failing to supply the troops to force his surrender terms on the Bosnians, is among those Europeans now touting a get-tender-with-Serbia policy.
It did not obtain tenders for those contracts, but later changed its policy to seek tenders "wherever possible".
Another policy intervention is tendering, which has been introduced in the market of some molecules in the Netherlands and Germany.
These tenders are designer markets or policy mechanisms in which the proactive participation of landholders is required for success.
Nonetheless, Lennon's film was no political scorched-earth policy but a tender, intimate look at people whose lives and very souls were being squeezed by dogma and tradition and also at the irresistible charm of that inertial force.
If rumors are true, it is only through the most tender counsel of his foreign policy advisors, over the past fortnight, that Kim Jong-un has been dissuaded from invading Franco.
In the meantime, he needs the support of UMNO heavyweights such as Mr Najib.In the long run, both Mr Badawi and his team of bright young advisers do seem genuinely determined to clean up public life in Malaysia hence the commission on the police, the new policy on public tenders and the cancellation of wasteful contracts.
It became the chief governing body in Rome and tendered advice on home and foreign policy, on legislation, and on financial and religious questions.
